George I. 1660-1727. King of Great Britain and Ireland 1714-. First Hanover. Utrecht Peace. South Sea Bubble.

George II. 1683-1760. King of Great Britain and Ireland 1727-. Weakness led to constitutional monarchy.

George III. 1738-1820. King of Great Britain and Ireland 1760-. Supported King’s Friends. Political instability. American Revolution. Insane 1810-.

Gilgamesh. Legendary Babylonian king. Epic 2000BC includes Great Flood.

Great Awakening. 1720-60. US religious revival.

Great Britain. 1707 Kingdom of England, Scotland, Wales. United Kingdom. Act of Union.

Great Fear. 1789. Peasants refuse to pay taxes, prepare for aristocrats’ attack in rural France.

Great Intercourse. 1495. Henry VIII, Philip of Burgundy trade treaty.

Great Leap Forward. 1958-61. Failed Chinese program for increased output by communes.

Great Schism. 1054. East-West Schism. 1378-1417. Period of rival Popes in Rome, Avignon, following Avignon Papacy.

Great Society. 1965-9. US program of social reforms. War on poverty.

Great Train Robbery. 1963. £2.5M stolen.

Great Trek. 1835-7. Boers leave British Cape Colony, found Natal.

Great Wall of China. Parts 4C BC. Joined 214-204BC.

Hennepin, Louis. 1626-1701. Missionary explorer of Great Lakes. First European to Niagara Falls.

Hoover, Herbert. 1874-1964. US President 1929-33. Hoover Dam. St. Lawrence Seaway. Opposed direct federal aid to unemployed during Depression.

Interregnum, Great. 1254-73. HRE without ruler between Hohenstaufen and Hapsburg dynasties.

James II. 1633-1701. King of Great Britain 1685-8. Exiled 1689- in France. Supported Catholics. Bloody Assizes. Glorious Revolution overthrew him.

Johnson, Lyndon. 1908-73. US president 1963-9. Great Society program. Education Act. Medicare. Vietnam War.

Ka’bah. Shrine in Great Mosque. Moslem Hijrah pilgrimage objective. Contains Black Stone of Mecca given to Adam to absorb his sins. Kidnaped 930-950.

Kalmyks. Nomadic Mongolian peoples. 17C Settled Lower Volga. 1771 Forced back at great loss of life. 1945 Exiled to Siberia. 1957 Restored.

Martin V. 1368-1431. Pope 1417-. Election ended Great Schism.

National Recovery Organization. 1933. US. For business recovery during Great Depression.

New Deal. 1933-9. Roosevelt’s economic policy vs Depression. TVA, CWA, WPA.

Ojibwa. (Chippewa). North American Indians near Great Lakes. Supported French vs British in 7 Years War, British vs Americans in Revolution.

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